Sad to see another Mercurial holdout switch to Git.
The latter is ahead in network effects in a massive way - but I always preferred Mercurial. I'd have used it more but - network effects! - used git because of the projects I was working on.
The main thing was that the mental model of Mercurial fit in my head and the CLI was predictable and regular, whilst the tool still scaled to large codebases.
I find Git wants me to think about its implementation details and internal terminology at unpredictable moments during use. It still gets the job done but it feels like doing random CAPTCHAs in the midst of my work.
The latter is ahead in network effects in a massive way - but I always preferred Mercurial. I'd have used it more but - network effects! - used git because of the projects I was working on.
The main thing was that the mental model of Mercurial fit in my head and the CLI was predictable and regular, whilst the tool still scaled to large codebases.
I find Git wants me to think about its implementation details and internal terminology at unpredictable moments during use. It still gets the job done but it feels like doing random CAPTCHAs in the midst of my work.